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After dreaming up and dummying up PM in 1939 ("an all-star cast of friends" like Heywood Broun, Dorothy Parker, Dashiell Hammett and Lillian Hellman helped get out the first dry runs), Ingersoll began scouring the country for an angel. Once he almost found one in Life Saver Tycoon Edward Noble. They were set to sign the next day. That day Hitler marched into Poland and Noble decided not to march into any risky investments. Ingersoll finally found 16 backers who would "gamble with $100,000 chips," but money petered out, and he talked Field into carrying the whole debt...
...game to watch will be Kramer's at Wimbledon against Australia's flashy newcomer, Geoff Broun and Dinny Pails. Australia won the Cup seven years ago, because of the war has not had to defend it since...
...does he do it? What divine-or possibly sinister-gift does the man possess? This question has often struck dazed spectators of thin, hollow-eyed Msgr. Fulton John Sheen's success, year after year, in converting Americans to Catholicism-Columnist Heywood Broun, Capitalist Henry Ford II, Communist Louis Budenz, Congresswoman Clare Boothe Luce and hundreds of others...
...least one thing besides the theater their minds meet. Along with Marc Connelly, Arthur Kober and F.P.A., both are passionate regulars in that famed weekly gathering of cutthroat bonhomie that first achieved fame as the Thanatopsis Literary and Inside Straight Club. This poker game, which Heywood Broun once asked to be kept going till 10 a.m., "so I can make my picket line," and which has been known to run for 33 hours,* is for Grouse "the most refreshing mental bath I can get." The club has a West Coast "branch," and "with luck and a plane," say Lindsay & Grouse...
...Catholic University. He is also probably America's best-known priest, with an audience of millions for his Sunday preaching on NBC's Catholic Hour and a fan mail of 3,000 to 6,000 letters a Sunday. Among his other noted proselytes: the late Heywood Broun, politico Horace A. Mann, motor dynast Henry Ford...